The Cluster Wave Experiment Consortium

WEC commissioning

This page summarizes the status of the commissioning of the Cluster WEC
instruments.

Latest status

The final deploymentof the last pair of booms on SC4 took place on 16 November.
This completed the sequence of boom deployments, which have all been successful,
and was followed by a small celebration at ESOC. See also the story at
the Cluster home page.

At the end of last week, 9-10 November, a major event on the Sun compressed
the magnetosphere so that the spacecraft entered the magnetosheath several
times. It also caused disturbances to the operation of some instruments,
including WEC.

Event timeline

The table below gives details of when the various steps in the WEC commissioning
were performed on the different spacecraft. For more information on each
step, please consult the WEC User Manual.